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Sunday, November 1, 2009

Sunday, November 1, 2009

This week I've discovered that there are billions of Twilight cakes out there, most of which fall in the "regrettably hilarious" category. Granted, you can't expect fan cakes to be professional quality, but it did make finding the good Twilight cakes a bit of a chore. And then, most of the nice ones I found were one of two designs: either this...

lol, yes, I won't say anything about Twilight itself, but I do like the first cake and the stacked book one. the portraits are good too, but I like that folks kept more to the books than the movies for the decent cakes. (notice how the wrecks were mostly based on the movies? just sayin')

I love the book stacked cake. The little details on it that relate back to the books are great. I especially love the fork on it, made me laugh. The lion and lamb at the top were too cute. I kind of want it as my wedding cake. (That is if I ever find someone awesome enough to marry me.)

Cool Cakes...as usual! I just wanted to let you know, if you didn't already, that Cake Wrecks was mentioned by Graham Norton of the BBC talk show with his name last night. Of course, who knows how old that episode is, since BBC America tends to give us the...afters.

I'll admit that I am a Twilight fan, and I am delighted to see such great cakes this time around! Still, the Rob P. portrait seems to be getting into chest hair territory (see Tom Selleck--ew...) And wanting a big chess piece for your birthday cake feels a little strange to me.

It was great surprise to see "Olympic Rings," etc. on Graham Norton. Yay! He always knows what's funny!

I love the four books together cake. And the book cakes in general are fabulous.

And, I will come out as a fan of the Twilight books. I also loved Harry Potter. And Lois Lowry, especially The Giver world. Also Narnia and Wrinkle in Time series. And everything by Mercedes Lackey, but especially her Valdemar world. (There's more, but we don't really have the time.)

Just wanted to tell you I had over a dozen kids spend the night...only two or three were awake at a decent hour...I pulled up your Halloween Cakes and we scrolled through your blog and laughed the other kids out of their sleeping bags (some of the jokes were over their heads, but I have a 'wake up and hear the joke' kind of laugh) Thanks!-Lynn

Not a twilight fan, my main reaction to the series is "Kill it with fire!" (Except you apparently can't kill their vamps with fire because they're basically Superman with venom covered in glitter... grr...) Anyway, these cakes are gorgeous! Too bad the talent is wasted on the subject matter.

I know zilch about Twilight but I really, really like the chess board one (gorgeous!) and the large, white chess piece. The ones shaped in books are also quite lovely. I may not have read THESE books, but a book nerd recognizes a good book cake when she sees one. :)

Sorry, but I think I liked the portrait of Edward and Bella from the other day better. The shadowing on Edward's face is sort of looking like a creepy growth that I wish he'd have removed. Not that I could do this well myself, of course!

My two favorites the first tiered cake and the Breaking Dawn chessboard cake. What gets me with these cake designs is that Stephenie Meyer had her vampires using a lot of pale, light colors and not so much black. I know the book cover backgrounds are black, but still, black frosting is just... eww. Lovely to look at but I wouldn't want to eat any of them.

OMG Jen Cake Wrecks has gone international TV!!! Cake Wrecks was on the new The Graham Norton Show last night on BBC1 (BBC America here)(girly screams!!!!!) It's the one with Michael Buble... I'm soooo excited for you!!!

As much as I would like to suck face with RPatz, I don't want to eat his face...it's just sick & wrong. I love the Twilight book cake with the pages in the background. Or the one with the lil lion & lamb with the fork...too farkin cute!

Although I'm impressed with the artwork, I'm not sure what I think about Edward's face on pea-green frosting... Maybe a not-so-subtle remark about the decorator's feelings toward the sparkly vampire series?

Oh come on TWILIGHT AGAIN! Sorry not the best fan of twilight. The obbessive fan girls will kill me someday but I don't partuiculary care. Beatiful cakes even if they are from bad books.

READ THIS (don not ignore because unlike Twilight this has information (not to mention a plot. It's comments like this that will get me murdered by all those fan girls from Transylivania or something. I'm not funny I accept that>):Also You know that post from a couple of days ago. (yes yes techincally your supposed to post it in that actual post but I'm not sure you'd read it). ANyway you remeber the green frog thing? Well in your 2008 october "Mums the word" one of the cakes is a dead cousin to this one. they even have the same creepy plastic fingers! The the dead one lacks those wonderful barf sprinkles. Just saying I thought you might like to know. (In case you havn't noticed, which you probably have)

Honestly, I think this is one of the worst "episodes" of "Sunday Sweets" to date. The cakes are okay, mediocre, a 5 on the 10-scale. Not amazing, which is what I like to see on Sundays here at CW. It's not your fault that no one cares enough to make awesome Twilight cakes though. And just for the record, no, I don't like Twilight but my dislike of the series/movie does not affect my ability to judge the cakes fairly. I don't like Doctor Who (sorry!) or WOW either but some of those cakes are absolutely gorgeous. (And I really have a dislike for WOW since the Hubby plays it all the time.)

The only good cake here is the first tier cake, and it's still boring. The picture cakes are just creepy and bad; Robert Pattinson is just creepy and bad himself.

What's the obsession people?! You "Twilighters" need to show some passion for what you love!

I guess I'm the only one here who thinks that first portrait cake just isn't all that impressive. It's loads better than the one that had Bella's hand hugely mannish (reminded me of the Man Hands chick that Jerry dated in that episode of "Seinfeld") though. That wedding cake is phenomenal though! I'm always impressed when people can do those amazing things in butter cream instead of fondant like some of the others on the list.

Not a fan of Twilight, but the cakes were pretty cool. All that black icing, though, looks very unappetizing to me. Am I the only one who finds that black and other dark colors of icing (reds, dark purples, etc.) taste nasty?

I'm not a fan of these cakes at all... not because they're Twilight but because really they are all a bit wrecky looking! The stack of books one is alright. I do love the twisty Tim-Burton-looking trees on the fourth one, but what's the deal with that deformed gold heart?

I fully agree with the Anon who said that buttercream portrait looks like a kid's hooked rug - that's totally what I thought too!! hahaha

I don't think these cakes are that great.I haven't read "Twilight," and probably won't, so I'm only commenting on the cakes, not "Twilight."If they didn't fit the "Twilight theme, I don't think these cakes would be on Cake Wrecks at all. They aren't horrible, but they aren't exceptionally good, either. The designs aren't all that creative, and the execution ranges from mediocre to pretty good (not great).

My cat just walked across the keyboard and typed, "009," which I take to be his rating of Twilight Cakes on a scale of 1 to 1000.

Awesome cakes! Any day w/ Cake Wrecks and Twilight together is a good day for me. I do believe, however, the green and black Robert Pattinson cake is from one of his actual pictures as his hair is a little more wild than in the movies. My guess is that it's him in Mexico but I know a more experienced Rob detective could pinpoint it. Yay Twi-cakes!

These cakes are amazing! I'm a total Twilight Fanatic...(and I'm 30, so not just for tweens!) and I'd love to have one of those cakes at my party! Especially the stacked books with the lion and lamb on top!

Never read the series but the stacked book cake is my favorite! The huge chess piece (is it a queen? I think it's a queen) is also quite remarkable. The apple in the first one is very, very shiny--I wonder if it's real!

The actual artwork on the others is very well done. The only one I'm not partial to is the green one. It's clever, but green is just not my thing.

LOVE the stacked books! Thanks for the TWILIGHT Sunday Sweets---needless to say, I'm a fan - but I will agree that the series is not the *ultimate* vampire series. Anne Rice & LeFanu did it better. I agree that the sparkles are *out there*, but hell, I still love RPatz -he can bite me any day! [mmm-*thinks of RPatz feeding me cake...YUM*]-Kat

Well, to be fair, these cakes tend to focus on the covers of the Twilight books (the best part by far of the entire series). The lion and lamb are misshapen, and the first portrait cake is pretty bad, but the first cake is gorgeous.

I don't know about twilight, but most of these cakes are gorgeous. Though I think that the green and black edward cullen cake is actually a wreck, what with the color scheme and all... I didn't know vampires got the flu? Or is that coming in the next book... "Edward? you're looking green! Did you drink that pig blood?"

The cakes are okay, and while they're not the beautiful and original designs we usually see on Sunday Sweets, they're not really supposed to be. They're supposed to be recreations of the books or the actors, and they are-- pretty good ones, too. I hate Twilight and I am looking forward to next Sunday, but let's not sell these cakes or bakers short.

Except the gold-heart cake. That thing is a horrendous mess that I would feature in a weekday post. Eew. D:

I think that the cake done by Chocmocakes is more of a Tim Burton style. But it could be just me.I like the books better but the media really ruined it so I don't want to read it anymore either. :( *tear* But it is only my opinion. ~T.O.C.

I will admit to being a fangirl... though not a crazy obsessed one who worships R-Pattz. I like the books and that's all.Pretty cool, but I'm surprised this is all you can find. Personally, I wouldn't eat any of them because black frosting is gross.

More cakes:http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo108/princessgirl93/Twilight/twilight.jpghttp://www.cakehopeandlove.com/2010/07/twilight-saga-eclipse-cake.htmlAnd if you want wrecks:http://destinys-demon.deviantart.com/art/Twilight-Cake-2-109879057http://www.kidspartycakes.com.au/photos/Kidspartycakes/twilightcake.html

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